Outlying

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Outlying \Out"ly`ing\, a.
     Lying or being at a distance from the central part, or the
     main body; being on, or beyond, the frontier; exterior;
     remote; detached.
     [1913 Webster] Outmaneuver



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  outlying
       adj : relatively far from a center or middle; "outlying
             settlements" [syn: {outlying(a)}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  39 Moby Thesaurus words for "outlying":
     apparent, cortical, distant, epidermic, exomorphic, exterior,
     external, extraneous, extraorganismal, extrinsic, far, far-flung,
     far-off, faraway, farthest, foreign, fringe, furthest, impersonal,
     nonsubjective, objective, open, out, out-of-the-way, outer,
     outermost, outmost, outside, outstanding, outward, outward-facing,
     peripheral, public, remote, removed, roundabout, seeming,
     superficial, surface